Central Europe and the Nordics: Bilateral Relations and Views on Europe from Semi-peripheries

Small nations and states during the 19th and 20th centuries often perceived themselves as peripheries which were struggling to secure or maintain their cultural and political autonomy in the concert of nations. These balancing acts contained various forms of national strategies, but also seeking contacts and reference points in a larger European context. The seminar will explore strategies to overcome cultural hierarchies and asymmetrical power relations as well as to investigate entanglements, transfers, and relations particularly between the Nordic and central European semi-peripheries.

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